@karen @partridge @tuxcrafting Exactly, where do you even start with criticising conservatism in general? Wanting to keep things the way they are? Believing that we broadly got the foundations of society right three or four hundred years ago - and in EUROPE, at that?

It's laughable. It's pathetic.

The only "right wing" school of thought that presents an actual *intellectual challenge* is anarcho-capitalism and that's because it's basically the result of a lot of scaffolded intellectualisation that all verifies and reinforces itself pretty mathematically. If you make the erroneous assumption that some kind of abstract value representation (i.e. capital) is a fundamental part of the way sentience parses the world then it actually makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately that isn't true, so in practice it's just a lot of incredibly academically minded people who genuinely want to do the best for the world around them but who are working on a bad assumption, and that's what makes it so fucking infuriating.

Oh and it's also the beloved ideology of brainlets who feel all the standard arm-folding conservative resentment but don't want to commit to fascism, so they put their faith in a different higher power instead. You can usually tell *those* ones becuase they have their colours everywhere and their snake memes everywhere and they never shut the fuck up about how much they hate "commies"